Help with installation past the first host/switch/service

John BORIS jboris at adphila.org
Fri Apr 3 03:27:14 CEST 2009


Jim,
Thanks. I finally figured it out with trial and error. I will track down
the book.

>>> Jim Avery <jim at jimavery.me.uk> 04/02/09 3:45 PM >>>
2009/4/2 John  BORIS <jboris at adphila.org>:
> I have nagios 3.x setup and installed on Fedora 10. Works fine but I
> only have 1 server, 1 switch, 1 printer, 1 windows server setup. How
do
> you add more of the same type? The instructions (all that I could
find)
> say "Do this for the first one" but then fall silent on what to do
with
> the second, third etc. The same thing goes for the switches and any
> other device or "host"  Any insight would be appreciated even a good
> pointer to a How-To.  All of my searches have failed to provide any
> insight into this.

The 2nd, 3rd and so on are similar to the 1st except the host_name,
alias and address will be different for each.

A good way of getting a head start learning how to configure Nagios is
to buy a book on the subject.  I recommend "Nagios" by Wolfgang Barth
- http://nostarch.com/nagios_2e.htm

hth,

Jim


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